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Holt Artillery Tractors Tow field guns during First World War

Two Holt Artillery Tractors Tow guns past watching troops during World War I. British and French troops are visible (some casually lying on the ground in front of the camera). Several soldiers on horseback are seen and many canvas-covered troop trucks, in the background. A white tent is pitched on the other side of the path. A motorized ambulance is in the background.

Date: 1915
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028069
German children gather at a park, watch other children dance, and get hot chocolate in Weisbaden, Germany.

German children gather at a park in Weisbaden, Germany soon after the end of World War I. Two kids performing a dance in front of the other children and the men and women present there. Children applaud. Women give hot chocolate to the children. Young boys and girls in war torn Germany enjoy the entertainment and hot drink.

Date: 1919
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028088
British forces engaged in France during World War I

SA battery of British artillerymen firing 18 pounder field pieces at German forces in the Hindenburg Line, during World War 1. Change of scene shows British soldiers at side of a road as wagons of French refugees and children on foot and with bicycles, flee the combat zone. British troops, horses, vehicles,and a heavy mortar (covered) move through center of a town choked with departing refugees. Views of ammunition train moving across open fields. Stacks of heavy artillery shells at a munitions dump. Wrecked guns and equipment at the front. (WWI. WW1)

Date: 1917
Duration: 2 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028103
Britain’s King George V and Field Marshal Haig, meet with French Marshal Foch and Gerneral Petain just before the Armistice ending World War I.

Historic Meeting of Britain’s King George V with French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, British Field Marshal Douglas Haig, and French General Henri-Philippe Pétain, in France, on the eve of the Armistice, ending World War 1. King George V, wearing black mourning armband, begins to organize them to pose for photographs, at the foot of some stairs. They all do some shuffling to arrange themselves with due respect to rank, etc and end up with King George V in center of front row, with Haig and Petain to his left. To his right is Marshal Foch, French General Louis Franchet D'Esperey and British General Henry Rawlinson. Complete change of scene shows a clean shaven British military officer speaking with British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. The local city mayor is with them, dressed in ceremonial robes. A statesman, in top hat stands nearby. A uniformed man carries the Mayor’s maces. Next, Lloyd George and the British officer inspect troops, walking between flanks of British soldiers holding shouldered rifles.

Date: 1918
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028108
Troops advancing and artillery shells supplied to forward gun positions during the Battle of Ancre in World War I

Troops and supplies flowing towards the front during the Battle of Ancre in France during World War I. Horses taking supplies of shells to forward gun positions through a sea of mud. Soldiers place shells in bags suspended over sides of Horses. Some of the horses get bogged down in knee deep mud. The supply train, of horses carrying shells, stops for a rest. Mounted troops sip hot coffee. They continue and approach the forward positions passing aside a deep crater filled with water and then proceeding up on a ridge.

Date: 1916, November
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028120
British 5th Army troops preparing for Battle of the Ancre in World War 1

British 5th Army soldiers gather in a field during the Battle of Ancre in France. They are issued rubber thigh boots to keep them dry in muddy trenches and prevent frostbite. Vehicles in the background. Soldiers stand near a trench in the field. They walk in the trench. They fix detonators into Mills grenades. The Scottish Rifles Cameronians infantry regiment load up magazines for their machine guns. Reinforcements of troops and war materiel seen pouring up to the front.

Date: 1916, November
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028122